The Dark Moonlight Is a Natural Enemy to Brooding Men

The whole capital is in an uproar!

Lin Zhaozhao, the pampered darling of the Loyal and Brave Marquis’s household, has actually stopped Qi Yao, the living King of Hell who strikes terror into everyone, right in the middle of the street!

“Marry me! Or I’ll kill myself right here!”

Everyone says the sheltered young lady of the marquis’s household must have gone mad!

Who is Qi Yao?

A vicious widower past thirty

A ruthless snake in the imperial court

Not one of his first three wives lived long enough to return to her parents’ home after the wedding!

But what’s even crazier is that Qi Yao actually marries her!

Can the new bride of this harbinger of doom survive three days?

The latest odds at the capital’s betting houses:

Survive the first night: 1 to 10

Make it to the homecoming visit: 1 to 1,000

Give birth to an heir: 1 to 10,000

[The version you imagine]: An older man spoils his young bride rotten, even smiling indulgently as she parades her new and former lovers around the household?

[The real version]: That night, the red candles burn bright. Qi Yao grips the girl’s slender neck and pins her to the wedding quilts. “Lin Zhaozhao, if even one of those lapdogs of yours is still in the capital tomorrow… I won’t mind becoming a widower again… Hmm? You…”

Lin Zhaozhao straddles Qi Yao’s lap, teasing his chin with a fingertip as she smiles. “Husband, did you strangle all your dead wives like this?…”

Qi Yao’s eyes darken. He grabs her mischievous hand. “Go ahead and say that again. See what happens…”